Why is Pat Buchanan on television?

He's having a racial paranoia meltdown on MSNBC right now. I'm going to post it it on YouTube soon.

In meantime, I'll leave you with these words written by Buchanan in March:

First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.

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Update: Here's the clip.

View the full ten-minute segment here.

Choice quotes:

What were the African-American community in Philadelphia that gave him 90% voting on if not the fact that Barack Obama was one of them. West Virginia, Hillary, was one of us. That's the same thing. But West Virginia gets trashed, and Philadelphia is wonderful.

And:

If Barack Obama were not an African American he would have been beaten by John Edwards. He would not be the nominee. It is far more of a positive for him, not only in the African-American community, but with the Chris Matthews' of the world and in the liberal suburbs far more than it is a negative.

When is MSNBC going to fire this guy? It's long overdue.

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Update 2:

Karl Rove said that the long history of the KKK in West Virginia politics played a role in the vote (he was of course careful to point out that he didn't mean it in disparaging way):

Original here